TECH - Honda Unveils First-Ever Autonomous Electric Riding Lawn Mower | Benzinga
Honda (OTC:HNDAF) has rolled out its inaugural battery-powered electric autonomous zero-turn riding mower. This cutting-edge prototype, christened the “Honda Autonomous Work Mower” (AWM), is capable of self-operation.
According to a report by Electrek, the innovative lawn mower was successfully tested in a proof of concept trial with a U.S. commercial landscape firm earlier this year. Honda is set to launch a pilot program next year, inviting companies to field test the AWM.
The AWM allows for manual operation or can function in autonomous mode. The operator can set up autonomous operation using a “Teaching” mode, which involves driving the mower to map a mowing route using a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The AWM can learn and save multiple mowing routes and patterns to a cloud server.
Once a route is saved, the operator can launch the AWM’s autonomous operation in “Playback” mode. The ...